I decided to be a little bit different this morning and brought a digital camera with me to a photo session. I’m really not sure why. I think I just wanted to mix up my life a little bit and do something different. It felt a little odd to photograph a scene with a digital camera and it feels even more odd to be posting an image I exposed less than two hours ago onto this blog. What a crazy modern age we are living in! Well ok, everyone else has been living in this modern age for quite some time.
The most frustrating thing for me about working with a digital camera always comes in the form of me obsessing over the live preview on the back of the camera. I just can’t help it. No matter what I do I find myself fighting the urge to check the last five frames I’ve exposed and that obsession really takes me out of the moment and interrupts my creative path. It kind of makes me wonder if there is anyone out there who has ever made a digital camera without a live preview function and if I’m the only one who would find such a camera appealing.
Anyway, working with a digital camera certainly does afford some creative opportunities. Like being able to expose thirty frames of the wind flowing through the model’s hair and not hearing the sound of money flushing down the toilet as I expose frame after frame after frame hoping for that perfect frozen moment in time. That is rather nice…